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Finance education

Financial arithmetic is where intuition fails most expensively. Compounding is hard to feel, drawdowns are asymmetric in a way percentages disguise, and the average annual return is almost never the return anybody received.

These clips are explainers, not advice. They show the mechanics — what a 50% loss requires to recover, what volatility does to a compounded series — and stop there.

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Every clip here states its source and the period it covers, and carries the underlying numbers on its page as a table you can copy.

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What it covers

  1. 1Why a 50% fall needs a 100% rise to break even
  2. 2How compounding curves separate over decades from nearly identical starts
  3. 3The gap between average and compound annual returns, and why it is always negative
  4. 4What diversification does and does not protect against
  5. 5Why a savings rate outweighs a return rate early on

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